EU Notebook

Updated Aug. 13, 1998 12:01 a.m. ET

Is EU's Slow Response a Barrier to Trade?

Companies trying to launch pan-European marketing campaigns are becoming increasingly frustrated by differing laws across European member countries. And they are more and more dissatisfied, they say, with the way the European Commission is handling their complaints.

When American Express began its Membership Rewards loyalty points program in Germany in 1993, the swift reaction it...